Josiah Quincy III

Josiah Quincy III ( born February 4, 1772 in Boston, Massachusetts Bay Colony; † July 1, 1864 in Quincy, Massachusetts, United States ) was an American politician. Between 1805 and 1813, he represented the state of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives. He was also mayor of Boston and president of Harvard University.

Career

Josiah Quincy was the son of Josiah Quincy II (1744-1775), who was an early supporter of the American Revolution. He attended Phillips Academy in Andover and then studied until 1790 at Harvard. After studying law and his 1793 was admitted to the bar he began to work in Boston in this profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Federalist Party, a political career. In the years 1800 and 1802, he ran unsuccessfully for Congress in each case. Between 1804 and 1805 he was a member of the Massachusetts Senate.

In the congressional elections of 1804 Quincy was the first electoral district of his state in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of William Eustis on March 4, 1805. After three re- elections, he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1813 four legislative sessions. These were shaped by the events of the British -American war since 1812.

1812 did not run for Quincy for Congress. Between 1813 and 1820 he was again in the state Senate; in the years 1821 and 1822 he was a member of the House of Representatives of Massachusetts, he served as its president in 1822. In 1820 he was a member of a meeting to revise the constitution of Massachusetts. He then became a judge in 1822 urban Boston. Between 1823 and 1829 Josiah Quincy was the successor of John Phillips mayor of his hometown, before he then took over the presidency of Harvard University from John Thornton Kirkland. He held until 1845 this position. He wrote several historical treatises on this university and the urban development of Boston. Josiah Quincy died on 1 July 1864 in Quincy at the age of 92 years.

His son Josiah Jr. (1802-1882) was 1845-1849 also mayor of Boston. Also, the grandson of the same Josiah Quincy (1859-1919) practiced from 1895 to 1899 this office.